Call for Participants to the

3rd Global China Dialogue (GCD III)

Sustainability and Global Governance for Climate Change

China and the Chinese people are currently making an important contribution to the new world order and shaping a global society. What are the important global issues that concern China? What are the Chinese ways of thinking and doing things with respect to global issues? We provide a platform engaging both Chinese and non-Chinese in dialogue with China on a range of common concerns for the future of our world, including development, education, economics, migration, the family, the environment, public health, human security and global governance. The Global China Dialogue series (GCDs) focuses on these issues to enhance public understanding of current global affairs and common interests through public dialogue and discussion between Chinese and non-Chinese academics, experts, professionals and practitioners and interested laypeople, from interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives. The GCDs also develop the rules of ‘civilized dialogue’, encouraging both sides to listen to the other, understand cultural differences, respect local customs, accept different perspectives and acknowledge the common destiny of humanity. In particular, they explore new global governance, encompassing national governments, international organizations, multinational companies, NGOs and citizens, with a mission to building a harmonious, symbiosis-based global community. Two dialogues have already been held in 2014 and 2015, the proceedings of which has been published by Global China Press. Below is the details of the 3rd GCD.

Date: Friday-Saturday, 2-3 December 2016

Venues:

The British Academy

The House of Commons

UK Parliament, King’s College London

Themes:

Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals

Reviewing the Paris Agreement from a governance perspective

Sustainability in China’s green revolution

Corpus-based discourse studies on climate change

Structure:

Part one: A one-day event for the GCD III on Sustainability and Global Governance for Climate Change including the above themes, at the British Academy, Friday, 2nd December 2016.

Part two: An evening event for networking at the House of Commons of the UK Parliament, on Friday, 2nd December 2016.

Emeritus Professor Martin Albrow FAcSS, Honorary Vice President of the British Sociological Association (BSA), UK; Senior Fellow of the Käte Hamburger Centre for Advanced Studies, Law as Culture, University of Bonn, Germany

Lord Michael Bates, DEputy Chairman of the House of Lords, the UK Parliament; Minister of State at the Department for International Development, UK

Professor Letian Zhang, Director of the Center for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Director of Contemporary China Social Life Data and Research Center (CCSLC), Fudan University; and Co-Director of the CCPN Globa

Dr Joy Zhang, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent, UK

Organizers:

CCPN Global, UK

Lau China Institute, King’s College London, UK

The China Media Centre, University of Westminster, UK

YES Global, UK

Supporters (in alphabetical order)

Centre for Applied Linguistics, University College London, UK

Centre for European Reform, UK

Centre for Translation Studies, SOAS, University of London, UK

China–Europa Forum, France

Chopsticks Club, UK

Contemporary China Social Life Data and Research Center (CCSLC), Fudan University, China

ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, UK

Global China Press, UK

Global China Unit, UK

Journal of China in Comparative Perspective

Lau China Institute, King’s College London, UK

London Society for Chinese Studies, UK

New World Press, China

Research Centre for Discourse and Communications, Zhenjiang University of Media and Communication, China

Research Centre for Social Cultural Anthropology, Fudan University, China

Research Centre for Social Theory, Peking University, China

Research Centre for Studies of Sociological Theory and Methods, Renmin University of China

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